Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer

Coinbase, Inc.; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus eligibility

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to build the foundational infrastructure for feature engineering, model training, and model serving across the company.

The platform powers fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis, spanning streaming, distributed training, and highly available inference services. You will own ML inference infrastructure, streaming pipelines, and training orchestration, while improving observability and mentoring

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience building distributed systems in production.
• Built and operated low-latency ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving or distributed training).
• Proven track record mentoring engineers and improving engineering quality through reviews and design discussions.
• Familiarity with ML platform components (feature stores, model serving frameworks, training orchestration) to collaborate with ML engineers.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure with high availability and low latency at scale.
• Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines delivering fresh feature data to models.
• Improve distributed training infrastructure to process large data volumes efficiently.
• Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality and detect degradations affecting model performance.
• Mentor junior engineers to raise the team's engineering standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Streaming pipelines

Model serving

Training orchestration

Observability tooling

Mentoring engineers

Generative AI

Code reviews

Platform ownership

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for \"good enough,\" you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer

As a Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer on the ML Platform team within the Platform group, you'll build the foundational infrastructure that powers feature engineering, model training, and model serving across Coinbase. The platform you build supports fraud detection, user personalization, and blockchain analysis. You'll own critical systems spanning stream processing, distributed training, and highly available inference services, directly shaping how ML scales across the company.

What you'll do:

• Own the design and reliability of ML inference infrastructure serving both predictive models and LLMs, maintaining high availability and low latency at scale.
• Build and optimize low-latency streaming pipelines that deliver fresh, high-quality feature data to production ML models.
• Drive improvements to distributed training infrastructure, enabling ML engineers to process large data volumes efficiently.
• Develop observability tooling to monitor data quality entering models and detect degradations impacting model performance.
• Mentor junior engineers on building production-grade software, raising the team's engineering standards over time.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with demonstrated ownership of distributed systems in production environments.
• Built and operated low-latency data or ML infrastructure (streaming pipelines, online serving systems, or distributed training) processing data at scale.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and raising team engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership.
• Familiarity with ML platform components (feature stores, model serving frameworks, training orchestration) sufficient to partner effectively with ML engineers as a platform builder.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

*Pay Transparency Notice:** *Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$191,250—$225,000 USD

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